Mary Astor
Stats
| Name: | Mary Astor | |
| Status | Deceased | |
| Age: | 81 (May 3, 1906 -September 25, 1987) | |
| IMDB: | IMDb | |
| TMDB: | TMDB | |
| Smoking Status: | Unknown | |
| Type of Celebrity: | Actor | |
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| Homepage | http://themaryastorcollection.com/ | |
| TMDB Popularity | 5.773 | |
| Biography (TMDB): | Mary Astor (May 3, 1906 - September 25, 1987) was an American actress. Most remembered for her role as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941) with Humphrey Bogart, Astor began her long motion picture career as a teenager in the silent movies of the early 1920s. She eventually made a successful transition to talkies, but almost saw her career destroyed due to public scandal in the mid-1930s. She was sued for support by her parents and was later branded an adulterous wife by her ex-husband during a custody fight over her daughter. Overcoming these stumbling blocks in her private life, Astor went on to even greater success on the screen, eventually winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Sandra Kovak in The Great Lie (1941). She was an MGM contract player through most of the 1940s and continued to act in movies, on television and on stage until her retirement from the screen in 1964. Astor was the author of five novels. Her autobiography became a bestseller, as did her later book, A Life on Film, which was specifically about her career. Director Lindsay Anderson wrote of her in 1990: "...(W)hen two or three who love the cinema are gathered together, the name of Mary Astor always comes up, and everybody agrees that she was an actress of special attraction, whose qualities of depth and reality always seemed to illuminate the parts she played." Description above from the Wikipedia article Mary Astor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. |
Profile Picture
Movies
Across the Pacific
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smokingsides
A cigarette clasped firmly between her lips waggles slightly as she speaks. |
Desert Fury
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smokingsides
[Astor] [smokes a lot]. She slaps her daughter while holding and exhaling. |
Midnight
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smokingsides
Didn't see all of this, but she has at least one good scene while playing cards. Lightup, two drags with exhales. |
The Great Lie
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smokingsides
Eleven scenes for Davis and five for Astor. Highlights are French inhales from Davis, and Astor lighting a new cigarette from the butt of her old one, though neither woman inhales much. Several instances of dialogue concerning their heavy smoking. |
The Maltese Falcon
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smokingsides
One well lighted scene on couch: long drag; inhale; thick exhale |
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smokingsides
She lights up once and in another scene is on her back on the couch taking a big drag followed by a very smoky exhale. |
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